Sustainable FM: How Sustainable Facilities Management Can Improve The Triple Bottom Line

Online, July 18, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Norwich, UK- The days when outsourcing the management of capital assets meant a little more than getting someone in to do your cleaning and change the light bulbs went long ago. But even today facilities management can be a piecemeal affair, with some of it done in-house and the rest parceled out to specialist firms.

The recession has concentrated minds though, and a report from MTW Research in January pointed out among other things that the FM market was becoming increasingly price sensitive and characterized by closer relationships between suppliers and contractors, as greater efficiencies and lower procurement costs are sought.

Across Europe, governments are focused on carbon reduction. France is planning to reduce its CO2 emissions by 75 percent, as laid out the Energy Act 2005, and Germany has set a reduction target of 40 percent by 2020 with the Emissions Ordinum (emissions trading scheme) coming into force in 2012.

Andy Eastwood, Johnson Controls' Director of Facilities Management for EMEA says energy efficiency is now high on boardroom agendas. "Our clients want more than cost reduction; they expect us to offer sustainable FM solutions ranging from web-based energy management software, which can be accessed on any computer with an internet connection, to energy audits that eventually help organizations improve their triple bottom line."

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